Quoted: Brazil was once held up by academics as a "racial democracy" but in recent years there has been a more heated debate in the country ...

Quoted: “The primary reason I am here is because of gender equality,” said Rebecca Israel, 25, who was raised in an Orthodox family. Ms. Israel attended D.C. Minyan and Tikkun Leil Shabbat, which she visited one recent Friday, until she moved a year ago to New York, where she goes to Kehilat Hadar. “If Judaism is central to my morality, then its practices needed to reflect the morality that I learned from it. In religious practices that limit women’s participation, Orthodox shuls were not living up to that equality that is important to me.”

Quoted: In four years, Google has built its search engine into one of the biggest money machines ever. From July to September 2007, advertisers spent more than $4  billion on ads targeted to Google searches. And Google just keeps on growing—the $4  billion figure

New insights into saccular development and vascular formation in lung allografts under the renal capsule. authors Thiennu H. Vu, Yemisrach Alemayehu, and Zena Werb

Quoted: According to Ato Berhanu, community conversations are a homegrown way of dealing with issues. "In an African country like Ethiopia, where there is a well-established and accepted culture of sitting together and sorting out problems through traditional means, rather than formal and institutional approaches, methodologies like CC are the ones that should be promoted and supported."

Very fascinating!!

Quoted: Palenquero was strongly influenced by the Kikongo language of Congo and Angola, and by Portuguese, the language of traders who brought African slaves to Cartagena in the 17th century. Kikongo-derived words like ngombe (cattle) and ngubá (peanut) remain in use here today.

Advocates for keeping Palenquero alive face an uphill struggle. The isolation that once shielded the language from the outside world has come to an end. Once three days by mule to the coast, the journey to Cartagena now takes two hours by bus on a bumpy dirt road.

this has a great video!

There have been about 200 acid attacks in the last year in Bangladesh. And they are on the increase. A year ago doctors were treating one to two a month. Today they're treating one to two a week. It's a uniquely cruel crime in a country where for most young girls, their prospects of a reasonable life depend entirely on a good marriage and motherhood.

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hey executive members of CCC, INC...this is the article I was talking about last night. enjoy!

I have always enjoyed reading Maru Gobena's essays. I agree with him in all accounts that we do need a major phenomenal intervention in re-shaping our socio-cultural norms. Although, he has not mentioned it in his essay, but it would have been conclusive if he has incorporated environmental factors, i.e. governance especially the "Red Terror" time and the dark era of spell/curse or as we call it "meTate"; which had led many to live their lives in fear. I believe secretiveness comes out of fear.

"A Case from my Bag of Childhood Memories"